Female Human Rights Volunteering in the Philippines

Volunteer in the Philippines and make a stand for female human rights.

Many female Filipinas are denied basic family planning services due to financial difficulties, lack of education and religious choices.  Meaningful Volunteer started Project Lifecycle to give Filipinas access to a 100% natural, cheap contraceptive method.

You'll get the chance to work with and form local women's groups and help market and promote Cycle Beads

What are Cycle Beads?

Cycle Beads are a 100% natural birth control method. 

The necklace has a small rubber ring that is moved around the necklace one day at a time.  The rubber ring starts on the first day of the women's menstrual cycle.  If the women has sex on the "brown bead" days, then she will almost certainly not get pregnant.   Click here to see a video about how to use SDM.

The Cycle Beads are 95% effective if used correctly.

Cycle Beads help to reduce the average family size.  The smaller family size you have, the more money you have for things such as food and education.  Poverty goes down as family size goes down.

The Cycle Beads are based on the SDM (Standard Days Method) of birth control.  It was developed by Georgetown University based in Washington D.C.  More information about the SDM method can be found here.

Project Plan

Our project plan allows us to coordinate and document our methodolgies, research success and failures. 

It is an online tool that is constantly updated by our current volunteers.  Future volunteers can use it to discover where the project is at and what still need to be done.  The project plan is freely available to all in the hope that others implementing the SDM method can learn from our successes and failures.

The project plan is based on the Standard Days Method: Implementation Guidelines for Program Personnel. which was developed by Georgetown University. The orginal document can be downloaded here.

How can your volunteering help?

By volunteering with Project Lifecycle you'll get to:

• Form women's groups in villages and teach them about the beads
  
   
• Give talks to community groups
  The Catholic Church supports the Lifecycle Beads and you'll have plenty of opportunities to talk to church groups
   
• Work with families to discuss the necklaces and the process
   
• Help market the necklaces